Bengal

Badal harping on Hindu-Sikh could allow Khalistanis to take over farmers’ protests

Ashish Shukla - December 16, 2020

Sukhbir Singh Badal accusing BJP of pitting Hindus against Sikhs in Punjab or even “saying about our soldiers” tomorrow is not a mad man’s...

Where does Modi go from this Bihar high? Is this bugle of triumph also one of warning?

Ashish Shukla - November 11, 2020

There is a reason for prime minister Narendra Modi to have an extra cup of tea which he loves so much in the morning....

Anarchy has come home to roost in India: What options do BJP have?

Ashish Shukla - October 24, 2020

Breakdown. Is that what India has come to? Most Indians are battling this conundrum. This perceived breakdown, internal, is largely at two levels: (a) harmony between Hindus-Muslims;...

HINDI: In conversation with Mahatma Gandhi

Ashish Shukla - September 17, 2019

I conversed with Mahatma Gandhi in dreams last night. I was in heaven with a collection of his thoughts and words—“India Of My Dreams”—and...

‘Didi’ in saffron saree? Yes, it’s coming

Sanjay K. Sharma - June 23, 2019

In politics, you sleep with strange bedfellows yet the changing tacks of Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to woo Hindus nobody had seen coming. The...

For god’s sake, stop this my Twinkle and your Asifa nonsense

Ashish Shukla - June 10, 2019

Some crimes shake the conscience of the nation: Like the one of Twinkle in Aligarh. Or Asifa in Kathua, Jammu. Millions of Indians mourn such...

Bhagwat signals a tectonic shift for RSS

Ashish Shukla - September 20, 2018

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) wants a samwad and it would leave its opponents nowhere to run. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s clear position on Muslims, reservations, lynching, Indian...

Remembering Bipin Chandra Pal: Who called Gandhi ‘Papal Autocrat’

Ashish Shukla - November 6, 2017

The popular history has Indian National Congress-Mahatma Gandhi-Ahimsa-Independence as a sequential thread embedded in the mind of free Indians. The disruptive truth of 1905-1920...

India’s “Second Independence”: the real deal

Ashish Shukla - December 23, 2016

We are entering into a stretch of political landscape which could simply be termed as the “Second Independence” of India in coming years. The BJP...

Why Mamata won’t pay respect to martyrs

Newsbred Staff - September 21, 2016

A piece in Swarajya magazine highlights the insensitive official reaction in Bengal politicians when two of their martyred soldiers in Uri attack in Kashmir were brought to...

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